Problem o' the day

[Howard White]

ARG!

Anybody had experience with xinetd (do not ask how old this version
is...) where the init.d script does not result in xinetd running but if
root enters xinetd without arguments, it runs??? We are getting very
few messages or log entries to work from.

TNX

Howard

[Will Drewry]

Availability is based on the version, but I'd try some combination of
the following to get a little more insight:

xinetd -d -filelog /var/log/xinetd.debug.whatever.log -dontfork

And there's always strace, ltrace, and gdb :)